Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery-abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.
During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Bridget knows what it's like to be Quinn. She's hunted, too. The only way to stay alive is to keep moving.
Barrelling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable. With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rear-view-an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn. Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.
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My name is Quinn Quicksilver - or Cue-Cue to the mean kids when I was growing up- but I can't blame my parents because I don't know who they are. 1
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(Thomas & Mercer, 25 January 2022, ebook, 365 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I've been a fan of the author for many years so was looking forward to Quicksilver. This is not one of his best books. Every now and again his books go a little OTT even for me with cheesiness and improbable plot lines that don't quite work like the last few volumes of his Frankenstein series that came out years ago. Quicksilver is one such example. There are some good moment early on when I was wondering what the hell was going on as I flicked through pages. Then Quinn meets his strange companions and it all descended into stuff and nonsense for me. I didn't enjoy this book much.
